The first time Stalin tried to invade Finland, he got embarrassed. Badly. Historians of Soviet military history often relish the absolute comparative spanking that a tiny Finland inflicted on the ginormous Red Army. To me, failure is far more interesting than success, and the “Winter War” is a particularly delicious example of huge military failure. Eve…
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